1703) HedgeHog, Republic of Mongolia: Fourth Coin in the "Woodland Spirits Coin Series": A 500 Togrog Silver Coin coordinated by the Coin Invest Trust (CIT) on behalf of the Republic of Mongolia and minted by B.H.Mayer's Kunstprageanstalt GmbH at their focilities in Munich: Coin issue Year: 2021:
A hedgehog is any of the spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae. There are seventeen species of hedgehog in five genera found through parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and in New Zealand by introduction. There are no hedgehogs native to Australia and no living species native to the Americas (the extinct genus Amphechinus was once present in North America).
Hedgehogs share distant ancestry with shrews (family Soricidae), with gymnures possibly being the intermediate link, and they have changed little over the last 15 million years.
Like many of the first mammals, they have adapted to a nocturnal way of life. Their spiny protection resembles that of the unrelated porcupines, which are rodents, and echidnas, a type of monotreme.
The name hedgehog came into use around the year 1450, derived from the Middle English heyghoge, from heyg, hegge ("hedge"), because it frequents hedgerows, and hoge, hogge ("hog"), from its piglike snout. Other names include urchin, hedgepig and furze-pig.
In Culture:
- The classical Persians saw the hedgehog as sacred to Ahura Mazda because of its dedication to destroying agricultural pests: "the dog with the prickly back and the long, thin muzzle...from midnight to morning it kills thousands of the creatures of the Evil One".
- The Ancient Greeks valued the saying of Archilochos: "The fox knows many tricks, the hedgehog, one good one" (presumably its ability to roll up in a ball).
- An essay by Isaiah Berlin, "The Hedgehog and the Fox," translates the Archilochos quotation as: "a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog one important thing". The essay distinguishes writers who see the world as complex and multi-faceted from those who see it via single over-arching idea.
Richard Onslow (1601–64), parliamentarian, compared King Charles I of England to a hedgehog.
The title character in Beatrix Potter's 1905 children's story The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle is a hedgehog.
In Part Four of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, Aglaya gives Prince Myshkin a hedgehog that Kolya has acquired and sold to her, as a gift of reconciliation, which clears up the bad feeling between them after a quarrel. In the passage, the hedgehog is identified as signifying "friendship, a burying of the hatchet, and making up".
E. Nesbit wrote a fantasy short story titled "The Princess and the Hedge-pig" (collected in The Magic World, 1912), in which a prince is under an enchantment, and his transformation into a hedgehog allows a curious prophecy to come true.
In the 1927 British detective novel, The Ellerby Case by John Rhode, in the chapter entitled "The Green Hedgehog," Doctor Lancelot Priestly, the investigator who solves the case, is nearly murdered by a hedgehog dyed green whose spines have been impregnated with a virulent poison.
Philip Larkin, the well-known twentieth century poet, wrote one of his last poems on the death of a hedgehog, "The Mower".
Sonic the Hedgehog, first introduced in 1991, is a blue anthropomorphic hedgehog and the title character of numerous video games, comic strips, and animated cartoons by Sega.
The Coin:
The Obverse of the 500 Togrog Silver Coin features the Soyombo Emblem of the Bank of Mongolia, below which is mentioned the denomination of the Coin - "500 TORPOR ("500 Togrog").
The specifications of this Coin are:
Country of issue: Republic of Mongolia; Year: 2021; Denomination/Face Value: 500 Togrog; Metal Composition: .999 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 1.0 Oz or 31.104 grams; Diameter/Size: 38.61 mm; Coin Quality: Proof; Mintage: 1,500 pieces; Special Technique: Smartminting® (Ultra High Relief); Presentation Box/Case: Yes; Certificate of Authenticity (COA): Yes.
Links:
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